picture overload

The easiest way to tell a story is through pictures, and when you don't devote that much time to your blog, pictures say a lot. 

Another three months has come and gone, and here I am, just barely getting around to the blog. Oh, well. If you're interested, you can keep on scrolling. 

You know me and my love for Utah football. This season has been no different. 

We've had our ups, and lots of downs, but they are still my team.

Even though it's really hard to continue to watch them lose. 

And especially because we heard today that, once again, we're losing our QB.

Potentially scary stuff for mister Travis.

In August I had an endoscopy done to check for polyps and to have my esophagus stretched so I could swallow food without it feeling like it was getting stuck.

Honestly, it was just like an amazing nap. I could have gone back to sleep after I "woke up", but they made me go home instead. 

September, I ran the Woman of Steel Relay with three of my sisters-in-law, and some of Tacey's friends. 

I won't lie, it sucked.

I'm a procrastinator, and I hate running, so I was not at all prepared. 

I ran 9 miles that day. 

More than I have ever run at one time. 

But, I finished. No one had to take over for me, I didn't get kicked off the course for being too slow.

I can say that I did it.

David got married!

That's right folks, all of the Lawrence boys are officially off the market.

Unless you're married to one, you're missing out. They are all pretty freaking awesome.

Mine being the best, of course. 

David and Amy got married on the 12th of October in the Salt Lake Temple.

We had a nice luncheon afterward at the JSMB, followed by their reception up Milcreek Canyon at Milcreek Inn.

From the day they got engaged, and I realized it was going to be the same time as the Utah v. Stanford game, I was a little upset. Only like the best game of the season, and I had to miss it. And then we WON, which made it sting a little more.

But, after all, family comes first, and even if I feel like they football team is my family, David and Amy are actual family, and I will always put my family first. 

Still proud of my Utes, though.

SELFIE!

Love my Walter White.

We were all a little skeptical of having the reception up the canyon in October, but it was actually not even that cold! They had these nice heaters set up outside that kept us all warm, and it was really pretty. Especially with the fall colors.  

All the sisters. :)

Congrats you two!

We love you!

The weekend after the wedding we headed to Vegas with Matt and Millysa for Bug O Rama. Essentially a car show filled with different VWs. Matt and John loved it. Millysa and I got tired and hot from walking around.

You should see the TOMs tan line I have on my foot. Sexy.

We watched some of the drag races which were pretty cool.

Who know an old VW bug can go 111 MPH?

Certainly not I. 

Then we went into the Shelby museum about a half hour before it closed. But we got the full tour, explaining why certain cars were named what they are (not for any logical reason), and why Shelby made the cars he did. Pretty neat. 

I still want to own one. Someday.

We stayed on Fremont Street, at the Plaza, which was surprisingly very nice. Fremont Street is like 10 times as crazy at night than the Strip, and I saw things I can't un-see. But it was an experience. We got to go to a free Our Lady Peace concert, which the owner of the D Casino was sponsoring, right outside his casino, which is new.

It's rare that you get to go to a free concert, and even more rare when it's a band that you actually know.

Yes, this happened. This man has his shirt tucked into his back pockets. He kept taking video with his phone, but didn't realize that his hand was in front of his camera, so he had a lot of videos of his hand. I'm sure the next morning caused some major confusion for him.

The week before Halloween the Sorensen's threw a Clue themed murder mystery. We had dinner and then played the game, around the house. It was super fun! 

Mrs. White; Mr. Green; Mrs. Peacock; Professor Plum; Colonel Mustard; Miss Scarlet

These two are quite the characters. 

John committed fully to his part, and shaved the cul-de-sac. 

As he put it, "What professor has a full head of hair?"

Miss Scarlet ended up being the murderer. 

Mandy ended up winning. Rigged. Just Kidding!

It was so fun to dress up! And do have Patty's totally real furs. 

She pulled them out of a closet, and John and I were shocked.

SO soft.

Monday, the 28th of October was my 24th birthday.

24? When did I get so old?

It was a good day.

I worked, like most grown-ups, and then John and I went to Cheesecake Factory, and he took me shopping. 

He had me all excited for this gift, only to inform me that it wasn't in stock, and would be arriving closer to Christmas, so it will now be a Christmas gift. I was kind of freaking out, wanted to know what it was. But he will not tell me. So, I'll let you know come Christmas!

My parents sent me this gorgeous bouquet of flowers at my office. 

Gotta love Skyline Flowers. They do amazing work!

My girl Mel Nash sent cookies to me at work also.

My boss kept coming over, and saying "Oooh, those look really good". I caught the hint, and gave him one.

Pretty much my friends and family are the bomb, and made me feel very special on my birthday. 

We carved pumpkins for Halloween with some of John's siblings and their kids. 

So many pumpkin guts, all over.

Leave it to my husband to make a scary pumpkin, and use an action figure to complete his work.

On Halloween, we both worked, and then spent the evening with the Lawrence's. After all, it is Patty's favorite holiday.

This is Lillie. We are in no way related.

We just work together.

From the first day at this job, people have called me Lillie, and are constantly getting us confused for each other.

So we decided to take advantage of it, and dressed up as each other for Halloween! 

I couldn't think of anything I could dress up as that would relate to his Walter White. I thought maybe Lydia, but I didn't want to walk around in heels all night. And Skylar is blonde. Boo. 

Arguably the greatest Walter White next to Bryan Cranston. 

The whole clan!

We have clowns with their elephant (who is not in her costume in this, but she was SO cute)

David and Amy walked around in morph suits, and Amy couldn't see. Hilarity ensued.

Jenny dressed up as Venom, and her friend Val was a caveman. 

Dan and Kristy dressed up as magicians and little N was their rabbit in the hat. Very clever.

That's it party people. 

Here we are a week away from Thanksgiving, and who knows, the next time I blog may be right after Christmas.

XOXO

updates

Okay, since my sisters never blog. I'll blog for them. (And because I have the pictures). Rebekah and Kati, and Lisa ran the Salt Lake 10 Miler this morning and so my parents, Jackson, and myself were at the finish line to greet them. (Sorry Kate. I'll make it up to you.) So I took pictures, and here they. Well...some of them.

Kati took second place in her age division!

Congrats!

Jackson was SO fascinated by the guitar. It was super cute.

How cute is this little boy!?

I love this. She's running, and she still looks amazingly happy.

The other night John was riding around Matt's scooter to get the hang of driving a scooter with a clutch, while Matt taught Jenny how to drive his Model A. I got my camera (YAY) so of course I was there to take photos.

He's such a poser.

The rest of the photos are just photos I've taken over the past little while, so here they are. Enjoy.

blog?

I know, it's been forever. I seriously need a break from life, and haven't even had time to think, let alone blog.

I'll try and update you on the past month, but I honestly don't know that I can remember all of it.

The beginning of January started out with a whole lot a stress, when on the first day of school I also found out that my company was majorly downsizing due to attorneys leaving to start their own firm. Panic attack central. LUCKILY, I kept my job, and we are now working crazily to pick up the pieces after people have left.

January also meant Teddy's birthday (like how I just skipped over the entire month?). He's now 62, which is hard for me to believe. I've always thought 62 was like waaay old. When I was younger, I was always scared my Dad wouldn't be at my wedding because he'd be in 60's and that was just ancient to me! Now I realize that it's really not, and even though he's an exception, he's still just as young as ever.

January also meant the 18 month mark for John and I. Being married a year and a half is kind of surreal. Some days it feels like it was last week, and other times I can't imagine a time that I was not with him. But I guess that's just what happens!

Anyway. Moving on.

I was in class one night, came home to an empty apartment, and about 20 minutes later there was a knock on my back door. Frightening, because I hate being home alone, and then I had to answer the door. But no worries, it was just Patty and John. They had been to Costco, which I knew, but John told me he was going for a few things. In they come with more food than we've probably ever had in our house, okay, exaggeration. BUT, it was a lot of food. Patty found out we eat out a lot, and she was appalled, so she bought us groceries.

You see, I'm trying really hard to eat better. Being in class until 9 every night makes it really hard to come home and make myself make an actual dinner. TBell is just so much easier! But now I have the food that means no excuses, and I've been doing well! I crave processed food, but I really am just done looking at myself in the mirror with nothing positive to say about my image. Sad, but true.

Wheat bread. I hate wheat bread. But I've accepted that it's better for you, and I am getting used to the taste.

Tuna, snap peas, tomatoes, carrots, apples, applesauce, 100 calorie packs, pop-tarts (for John), and oatmeal. This is pretty much all I eat now-a-days. It's repetitive, but it works!

We are so grateful for Patty. She really went out of her way to help us, and I really don't think THANK YOU counts for enough in this situation.

Well the Honda has been having some tire problems. For some reason my drive side front tire can not and will not hold air for long periods of time. We have yet to take it in, we just keep filling it up. We really don't want them to tell us that we need a new tire, but it's probably something that needs to get done. Seeing as I don't know how to change a flat. Probably something I should learn, huh?

This semester I'm in a photography class. Just a beginning photo class, teaches the basics of your camera, the settings, and we also get into photo shop. I already love it.

I took this for my class. I have to take at least 2 photos a week of just anything, and one day when I was walking to TRAX, I decided I would stop and take this, because I thought it looked pretty cool. I was PISSED when I opened it up in photo shop and saw the statue, the street light, power lines, etc. On my little camera screen I could just see the trees, and it looked awesome. I guess it's something I will have to try and fix, or go re-take the shot. Boo.

Oh running. I have started to the couch to 5k program with Anne. We have math together this semester, so we just go after class. It's kickin' my butt. I definitely need new shoes because after I run my hips hurt, and my knee. Just one knee. I'm hoping that as I go, I will start to enjoy it, because right now I'm not really loving it. I know (hope) it will get better though.

Anne and I...well Anne and I just am stealing the idea; we've decided we're going to do 500 miles in 2011, between running, biking, elliptical, etc. It's a big task...approximately 1 1/2 a day, which is kind of hard when you don't go to the gym every day (I'M WORKING ON IT!) but we can do it. It's a good challenge.

Other than those things, life is just the same old stuff. John and I are both in school, both working as much as physically possible, and still seeing each other for about an hour each day...long enough to tell each other goodnight, good morning and goodbye, is what I tell to people. It feels that way sometimes. No joke.

Goodnight is sounding pretty fantastic right now, I'm pooped.

I promise I'll blog before March. I have a post I want to steal from Mandy. So I will do that soon. Keep on stalkin'. I love when I hear people care what I write. :)